Post by Carli Jaff Here is another project from the



Lastly, Yash spent his 2 weeks in the Comics and Gizmos studio creating a pogo stick boot. Yashs inspiration for this gadget was Ironman, and his original idea was that the spring would allow the superhero to jump high. At first, he thought that a leaf spring (a single strip of metal that will bend) would work if one tracked it to their leg with a motor on it. That motor would in turn be attached to a spring. The bottom of the spring would be attached to a platform, which would be attached to ones shoe, and when one jumped, the spring would shoot the platform down. Once Yash got a pogo stick with a leaf spring, he took the inner springs out and experimented with them. Out of this trial and error period, Yash decided to shorten it to ones lower leg and put the leaf spring on and only have 2 springs in the pogo stick instead of 3. The stick would then operate under a ratchet system. However, this proved difficult because the spring was so strong that it was difficult to compress it. If Yash were to put a motor on the stick in order to compress the spring, it would make the whole stick too heavy. The pogo stick, in addition to the wall climbers, was not completed when presentations came around, but Yash explained that he is okay with this outcome because he learned so much during the process. Yash says that the most important thing he learned in this studio is to never be stuck on one idea; try many different options before settling on a final idea. Overall, Sam, Armando, Benji, and Yash created 3 very impressive products and look forward to using the skills they learned at NuVu in the outside world.


"Cold Blooded" by Sam Ingersoll